embroider

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EMBROID'ER, verb transitive To border with ornamental needle-work, or figures; to adorn with raised figures of needle-work; as cloth, stuffs or muslin. Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine line. Exodus 28:39.
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